Articles by Rose Rivera

1) How Investing Overseas Can Help Your Domestic Market
Investing overseas can help a firm protect its domestic market in three different ways. The first is to establish foreign operations in countries where the firm has major clients (Ball et al., 61, 2006). For example, if a U.S. firm has many customers in France, establishing subsidiaries in France to service those customers will prevent competition by similar firms in France from acquiring those customers. » read more

2) Making the Psychology of "Sunk Costs" Work for You
When making a decision, one of the worst errors is that of sunk costs; continually investing time, energy, and money into a project or course of action that is not meeting its performance expectations or goals (Robbins, 2005). Sunk cost errors are rooted in the human psychological need to persevere and succeed regardless of insurmountable obstacles. This need is emotionally compounded as more and more... » read more

3) How the Internet is Helping Women Achieve and Maintain Top-Level Management Positions
Having the ability to embrace diversity and incorporate change quickly is one of the greatest determining factors of success for companies today. Changes in workforce composition and the medium of conducting day-to-day business activities are two key factors that need to be fully considered and addressed by managers at all organizational levels. In particular, more women are occupying top-management... » read more

4) 5 Ways to Get Her On Top
For many heterosexual men having their women in the active, or "on top," position during sex is one of the most physically intense and emotionally gratifying ways to make love. Unfortunately a lot of women are very hesitant to take on this dominant role for two reasons; they don't like their bodies so they don't want their partner's to see any more of their bodies than is necessary and they are afraid they... » read more

5) "Good" Sex Values I'll Never Teach My Daughter - Part I - "Only Have Sex When You Are In Love!"
I don't like this "L" word. I think it's confusing, convoluted, and is given way too much importance in Western societies. Love isn't a feeling or an emotion. It's a pattern or a way of life that two people who know each other completely and honestly fall into. It's based on shared values, dreams, memories. Essentially, love takes a lot of time to build, and it's not something you magically "feel" every... » read more

6) The Artistry of Erotic Photography at Home
I am in love with high-quality erotic photography, particularly female nudes. There's something about the graceful curve of a woman's breast, hip, or even shoulder that creamily blends together the carnal act of sex itself with the deeper, more profound emotions of making love. Being able to capture this delicious mixture on film (or in today's world in pixels!) is to me one of the best uses for... » read more

7) Intriguing Your Lover...Again
My husband was as a Pirate for Halloween once. It was some of the best sex we've ever had. One of the main reasons sex is so exciting in the beginning of any relationship is because your partner is a new experience for you. Humans not only enjoy, but seek out new experiences all the time. It's just part of who we are. And while this adventurous streak leads us to do things like use fire and invent the... » read more

8) Feminism, Rules, & Kink
Power dynamics are found in every human relationship. That's right, nothing too profound yet! And even though everyone knows that these dynamics exist, very little is ever questioned regarding how those dynamics form or how to change them once they are firmly established. In our professional lives these unwritten rules of behavior rarely pose a problem since they are often dictated by convention. Work... » read more

9) Misunderstandings of Affection
Hugging, caressing, kissing...These things are done as a warm-up to more profound sexual festivities, Right? But these things are also done for the sake of just doing them...Right? If you answered yes to both questions, you can stop reading now. Congratulations, you must have perfect relationships. For the rest of us, I'd like to clear up a few things about affectionate acts. To begin, these supposedly... » read more